Artist's Bios
Steve Ward (www.aaroncraneinstitute.com/art)
is a resident of Murfreesboro who taught design, drawing, printmaking, and Art Theory for a number of years at MTSU. He received a BA in Liberal Studies from Bowling Green State University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and is married to Mary Magada-Ward, professor of philosophy at MTSU.
Mark Hackworth
lives in Athens,Ohio. He completed his BFA ( printmaking & drawing) from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, and his MFA ( printmaking & painting) from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. He has taught at Ohio University, Kendall College, England, Denison University, and Hocking College. He has received two Ohio Arts Council artist grants and was awarded a Yaddo Fellowship. He lives with the wonderful poet, Audrey Naffziger.
Audrey Naffziger (http://www.stockportflats.org/stay.htm)
Audrey Naffziger lives in Athens, Ohio, and has been working collaboratively for 20+ years. She co-founded the ATCO-Hocking Writers’ Collaborative, partnering college writing students with adults with disabilities in order to write poetry, short stories, plays, and music. She coordinated an extended collaboration of the ATCO-Hocking project with regional musicians and performance artists, which ultimately resulted in a 2-CD compilation (supported by The Ohio Arts Council) and a 3-day celebration of Community, Collaboration and The Arts at the historic Stuart’s Opera House. Together with her husband, artist Mark Hackworth, poet Jane Ann Devol-Fuller, and artist Patty Mitchell, she collaborated on a book project, Revenants: A Story of Many Lives, which was commissioned by the Houston-Hardin school district and was awarded a Special Projects Grant by the Ohio Arts Council. A Fulbright recipient, Naffziger's writing has been published in numerous literary journals including The New Ohio Review, Pig Iron Press, SpoonRiver Journal, Pikeville Review, and Algonquin. She has published 3 chapbooks: Intervals (Pikeville Press), Close to Home (SpoonRiver Quarterly), and an untitled chapbook-length collection featured in Crazy River. Desire to Stay, a book of Naffziger’s poems, was published by Stockport Flats Press in 2014. She received a BFA in English and Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University and an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Ohio University. She taught writing for 35 years at Hocking College, Ohio University, and Kendal College (England).
James Riley (https://smpbooks.com/product/broken-frequencies/)
is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Al Smith Fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, and an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council. He edited Kentucky Voices: A Collection of Contemporary Kentucky Short Stories (PC Press, 1999). His work has appeared in The Louisville Review, Kentucky Monthly, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Appalachian Heritage, The Connecticut Review, The Greensboro Review, West Branch, and a number of other literary magazines over the years. Riley received his Ph.D. in Modern British and American Literature from Ohio University in Athens and a Masters in English from the University of Arkansas. He is currently the English Program Coordinator and a Professor of English at the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, Kentucky, where he has taught since 1987. James’s new poetry book titled, Broken Frequencies will be published by Shadelandhouse Modern Press.
Saul Gray-Hildenbrand (https://www.lafontsee.us/gray-hildebrand-saul-about)
resident of Murfreesboro and graduate of Grand Valley State University and a prolific artist, Gray-Hildenbrand works in a variety of media from drawing to painting to sculpture, and employs a biting visual humor that is both peculiar and endearing. It is with his complex and peculiar creations that Gray-Hildenbrand reveals his “profane love of the absurd”. He is represented by the LaFontsee Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Ken Carder (http://www.kencarder.com/)
After attending Bowling Green State University as an art student Ken traveled to North Carolina in the summer of 1981 to apprentice with glass artists Katherine and William Bernstein. This was followed by employment as a studio assistant to Harvey K. Littleton that fall. In 1984 Ken was chosen to be an Artist in Residence at Penland School of Craft and began operating his own studio full time. He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous public museum collections in both the USA and Europe. Currently Ken shares a life and studio with his wife ceramic artist and educator Lisa Stinson in the mountains near Boone, North Carolina and they have a wonderful daughter who is a student at NC State University.
Louie Staeble (https://www.staeblestudioa.com/)
Photographer from Bowling Green, Ohio.
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